14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
...phosphine may have been produced, including lightening, micrometeorites and sources on the surface of the planet. and chemical processes happening within the clouds. The team also took into consideration ~75 relevant chemical reactions to account for...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... are typically traced by species such as CO, 13CO and NH3, and observations of these molecules can provide information on the kinematic properties of the cloud, from the presence of rotation to infall and outflows. Small scale, dense ‘cores’ within...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
...where they get environmental information from as long as it is appropriate, accurate and reliable. The EO data will be made available in the cloud, processed in the cloud to standard analysis ready data (ARD) formats, and then further refined through...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... by SpaceX. Key drivers There are three main drivers of change in this market: the lower cost of satellites, the lower cost of launch and the availability of the cloud. It is this third element that brings everything together and makes space such...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... orange plume rises from nearby Cape Canaveral after a failed test fire of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. If the cloud had reached people, it would have potentially caused severe burns on contact. (Jim Waymer/Florida Today/SpaceX...
27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
... skater doing a spin who has pulled in their arms to gather speed, the spin from the cloud causes a disk to form as the material spins faster and falls toward the star. If the disk of gas is large enough, spiral arms form and...
